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Table of Contents: “…New Journalism as the New Fiction: Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion, Mark Leyner, and Bret Easton Ellis --…”
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Table of Contents: “…Leaping toward an embodied hope : Emily Pennington's feminist eschatology and Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) /…”

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Table of Contents: “…End-of-Millennial Luxury Appliances: David Wojnarowicz and Joan Didion --…”
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Table of Contents: “…Preface -- The alternative tradition -- Inanna, Demeter, and Psyche -- The child and the hag : Sylvia Plath -- The child and the mother : Joan Didion, Mary Gordon, Virginia Woolf -- The woman and God : Etty Hillesum -- The goddess trajectory to Christianity.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; The Enclosure of Identity in the Earlier Stories; A Bibliography of Writings by Joyce Carol Oates; A Bibliography of Writings about Joyce Carol Oates; The Struggle with Love; A Bibliography of Writings by Mary Gordon; A Bibliography of Writings about Mary Gordon; The Bond between Narrator and Heroine in Democracy; A Bibliography of Writings by Joan Didion; A Bibliography of Writings about Joan Didion; Of Cars, Time, and the River; A Bibliography of Writings by Louise Erdrich.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Essaying, from past to present -- Rachel Carson: art, science, and the ecological essay -- Rereading Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem -- Susan Sontag, suffering, and the essay -- Joan Didion's politics -- Patricia Williams and the alchemy of the essay -- Afterword: "Why I write".…”
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Table of Contents: “…Late imperial romance: the politics of re-enchantment -- Mid-century romances -- Of whom the world was not worthy: Joan Didion's late imperial romances -- The glamour of ruin: Robert Stone's late imperial romances -- Systems and secrets: Don DeLillo's postmodern thrillers -- Resisting romances: Pynchon's V. and Gravity's rainbow.…”

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Table of Contents: “…: Faulkner's true history of the South -- Cormac McCarthy's Blood meridian : the first and last book of America -- Off Faulkner's plantation : Toni Morrison's Beloved and Song of Solomon -- Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon : drawing a line in the sands of history -- History after Henry Adams and Ronald Reagan : Joan Didion's Democracy and Don Delillo's Underworld -- Denis Johnson's Fiskadoro: postcolonial America.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Wharton in New York -- On Washington Square -- The genius of Margaret Fuller -- Gertrude Stein -- The fate of the gifted -- Cheever, or, The ambiguities -- Citizen Updike -- Paradise lost : Philip Roth -- In the wasteland : Joan Didion -- Reckless people : Richard Ford -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Wind from the prairie -- Edmund Wilson -- Norman Mailer : the teller and the tape -- Mary McCarthy in New York -- The magical prose of poets : Elizabeth Bishop -- Tru confessions -- Something out there : Nadine Gordimer.…”

Table of Contents: “…Fisher -- Mary McCarthy -- Seymour Krim -- James Baldwin -- Gore Vidal -- Adrienne Rich -- Edward Hoagland -- Wendell Berry -- Joan Didion -- Annie Dillard -- Richard Selzer -- Phillip Lopate -- Scott Russell Sanders -- Gayle Pemberton -- Richard Rodriguez…”

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